Sarah Pinto 
Daughters of Parvati [PDF ebook] 
Women and Madness in Contemporary India

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In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one’s beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography.
Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author’s own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.

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Note on Transliterations
Introduction: Love and Affliction
Chapter 1. Rehabilitating Ammi
Chapter 2. On Dissolution
Chapter 3. Moksha and Mishappenings
Chapter 4. On Dissociation
Chapter 5. Making a Case
Chapter 6. Ethics of Dissolution
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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Sarah Pinto is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author of Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format PDF ● Halaman-halaman 296 ● ISBN 9780812209280 ● Saiz fail 6.0 MB ● Penerbit University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. ● Bandar raya Philadelphia ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2014 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 2876660 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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